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It's really good news that there's another company behind Wayland now.
RH frankly directs it against people using "marginal" setups and applications, thus less influenced by it, and not for some ambitious goal.
Valve tend to be well-meaning guys. Anyway, in this case it's in their business interest to be well-meaning.
Valve is not well meaning. No large for-profit company is ever well-meaning. It's merely the case that Valve's best interest happens to align with those of the consumer, and they have decided that their business model is going to be to win over consumers' loyalty through goodwill rather than milking them for every penny they can get. And they are very successful at this, seeing that there has still not arisen any serious competitor to Steam. That's entirely because consumers are loyal to the platform. Valve provides a good service, consumers reward them with loyalty. It's not friendship, but it's symbiotic, which is as close as you can get to friendship in the harsh world of business.
Yada yada I think Valve is well meaning and I'm still to trust anything Microsoft does is well meaning. OpenAi is just the latest manifestation of how you could do things well but intentionally choose the evil path.